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  • Actors in formal dress in a courtly setting: the figure of Nakamura IV wears a long, red lion wig; the boy to the left plays a drum; the man to the right holds an offering tray with a petition on it. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1847/1850.
  • A woman wearing a high wig and protective hood entering into a breakfast parlour and being greeted by another woman wearing an elaborate wig and hat with feathers attached to the back of it; in the background a seated man looks on and a maid-servant brings in a tray of tea things. Mezzotint, 1778.
  • Nine illustrations following the sequence of events of a date between Yves and Pascale which results in sex with a condom; the illustrations include a car, a chef holding up a restaurant menu, a cinema ticket, a car, a bottle of wine and 2 glasses, 2 cigarettes in an ash tray and a condom packet; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph by P. Petit-Roulet.
  • Bee keeping at Chelsea Physic Garden, London. Close-up of bees at honeycomb tray. Insect members of the superfamily Apoidea, found almost everywhere, particularly on flowers. Their young are fed honey and pollen rather than animal food. Honey is collected in the form of nectar from flowers and concentrated into honey by evaporation. For most people bee stings are of little significance and are treated locally; other persons, however, react with hypersensitivity putting them in serious danger.
  • A woman with an open burgundy coloured shirt revealing her breasts stares wide-eyed at a diver holding onto a tray on which sit condoms and a clockwatch; a personified condom flies into the air off a skateboard while a telescope bearing an eye sticks out of the woman's top pocket; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Landsforeningen Ungdomsringen. Colour lithograph by Robert Lindvig, ca. 1995.
  • Five young women taking snuff. Stipple print after L. Boilly, ca. 1825.
  • A young gentleman taking snuff. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, c. 1824, after M. W. Sharp.
  • Three lecherous men gather round a pretty street seller, admiring her rather than her wares. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E. Pigal.
  • A pretty girl and an old woman both taking snuff. Coloured stipple engraving after L. Boilly, ca. 1827.
  • A group of five heads; three men smoking tobacco and two women taking snuff. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech, c. 1823, after L. Boilly.
  • A group of five heads; three men smoking tobacco and two women taking snuff. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech, c. 1823, after L. Boilly.
  • Two men at a fireside table taking snuff; remarks on snuff-taking below. Coloured etching, c. 1825.
  • Two men at a fireside table taking snuff; remarks on snuff-taking below. Coloured etching, c. 1825.
  • A street scene with a tall man offering snuff to a short, fat man. Coloured etching by W.P., 1827.
  • An old gentleman visitor offering snuff to an old woman at her fireside. Coloured lithograph by J. J. Chalon, c. 1821, after himself.
  • An old gentleman visitor offering snuff to an old woman at her fireside. Coloured lithograph by J. J. Chalon, c. 1821, after himself.
  • Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.
  • Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.
  • Bee keeping at Chelsea physic garden
  • At Tesco our packaging is now as biodegradable as our produce / Tesco Organic.
  • Arnold and Sons Dental Cabinet, p. 269 from catalogue, 1885.
  • At Tesco our packaging is now as biodegradable as our produce / Tesco Organic.
  • Brook Watson being attacked by a shark in Havana harbour, 1749. Oil painting after J.S. Copley.
  • The medical quarters of the Melbourne, a ship of the Line: a ward deck, above, and an operating theatre, below. Wood engraving, 1860.
  • Oxo cube.
  • Oxo cube.
  • Oxo : Oxo cube.
  • Oxo : Oxo cube.
  • Sowing cinchona seeds in a nursery bed, Munsong plantation.
  • Bee keeping at Chelsea Physic Garden